Were you to be laid on your death-bed or in your [Pg 23] coffin, there would be no greater separation from everything of this earth than this.
— from Sanctification by J. W. Byers

"To be or not to be" Hamlet , "that is the question"; whether 'tis better continuously to suffer the tortures of uncertainty as to what you might have achieved had you essayed the part, or to take up the study of it, and ceasing to shiver on the bank, leave off your damnable faces, and plunge in?
— from Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892 by Various

"Well, my boy," he said, "isn't there a bit left of your dog's money to pay for a small glass of wine for your old friend?"
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas

and I found that book lying on your desk just where you stopped writing from weakness.
— from The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

To two cups of scalded milk or boiled water, in a mixing-bowl, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, and, when the liquid becomes lukewarm, one yeastcake dissolved in half a cup of water, boiled and cooled.
— from Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes by Janet McKenzie Hill

“That will be lovely of you,” Doris declared.
— from Doris Force at Locked Gates; Or, Saving a Mysterious Fortune by Julia K. Duncan

"You'd better look out you don't lose both your beaux," she added.
— from Duncan Polite, the Watchman of Glenoro by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

He has not seen you for nearly two years now, and I, too, saw but little of you during our journey through Berlin.
— from The Sign of Flame by E. Werner

These reports must be lying on your desk while you are conferring with Weatherly.
— from In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller